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A2 i Politics Journal and Courier, Thursday, July 23, 1992 home infon. Bus tour ends with big St. Louis rally By The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Bill Clinton and Al Gore capped their post-convention bus tour Wednesday with a huge rally, a promise to work for unity in a divided nation, and a long-distance exchange of political blows with President Bush. "There is nothing wrong with this country except we're underorganized, undereducated and underled, and we're going to change all that in November if youH help us," Clinton declared.

He spoke to more than 25,000 people who gathered at lunchtime, overflowing a St. Louis park, clogging adjoining streets and peering from rooftops. "We want to restore to this country a genuine sense of community and caring, to say we're all in this together," he said, echoing a central theme of the bus trip the Democratic team began last Friday in New York. "We're going up or down together without regard to race or region or income. This is America, let's start acting like it again." Gore pointed to widespread reports that Secretary of State James Baker would soon resign to join the Bush campaign.

Such a move would mean taking "the best they've got out of the Middle East peace talks at a critical moment," Gore said. Asked if the move would mean Bush is putting his campaign ahead of the country's interests, Clinton said late Wednesday: "There is that risk." He also said, "I don't care who is running the campaign. What matters is who is running the country." Clinton and Gore took their five-day bus caravan from the Democratic National Convention in New York through the factories, farms and small towns of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. They arrived in St. Louis late Tuesday night.

Greeted all along the way by large and enthusiastic crowds, Clinton and Gore portrayed themselves as the youthful and energetic alternative to the Republicans. Thousands of people crammed an intersection in downtown Little Rock, Ark. late Wednesday. Police estimated that at least 3,000 people gathered to welcome Clinton back to his home state. Meanwhile, Gore was welcomed home by a patient crowd of about 1,000 supporters who gathered at an airport hangar in Nashville as a version of "Rocky Top" played over the speakers.

--ri Gingrich escapes with only a scare By The Associated Press Surrounded by Cats actors, trainer Bob Martnick holds Morris the Cat. Company puts Morris the Cat up for president bank and compounded by the wholesale revision of congressional districts, said Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz. By The Associated Press ATLANTA Georgia voters sent angry messages to two congressional bad-check writers in primary elections. Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich escaped with only a scare, but Democratic Rep.

Charles Hatcher was forced into a runoff. And Democratic Rep. Ben Jones, under fire for congressional perks, saw his congressional career end at two terms, losing a bid to switch to a new district from one that had been mangled through redistricting. The congressional primary 'TV 'V; House bank, his support for a congressional pay raise and his former use of a taxpayer-financed chauffeured limousine. Gingrich, who has been a vocal critic of congressional Democrats, won the 1990 general election by only 974 votes.

This time his edge was 980, according to complete but unofficial totals that gave Gingrich 35,682, or 51 percent to Clark's 34,702, or 49 percent. Gingrich appeared to take note. "Since we already gave up the policeman and the car, obviously I think I'll have to make some changes," he said Wednesday. McKay, a 24-year-old Chicago-area comic who said he expected the job to last as long as the presidential campaign. "I do improv, mostly," he said afterward, watching Morris being bundled into a black limousine.

"But hey." Traci Weber, who works full time on Morris-related activities for Heinz Pet Products' Chicago public relations firm, said the cat, who is "about 15," has a naturally tranquil disposition. "He's always like that, very calm," she said. "It's not drugs." The cat has been Morris for 9-Lives cat food since 1979. The previous Morris died in 1978. Tony the actor, who did not want to give his last name "Are you kidding? My friends might By The Associated Press NEW YORK Morris the Cat declared his presidential candidacy on Wednesday, but Tony the actor, hired to wear a red-white-and-blue hat and wave a sign to hail the event, was singularly unimpressed.

"It helps to have a sense of humor when you're an actor in New York, that's for damn sure," he said grimly, reaching under his plastic cat nose to scratch. The candidacy of Morris pet-shelter survivor, cat-food promoter was announced at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater, site of the musical Cats. Five cast members in full costume were on hand, preening and striking feline poses. A pun-laden campaign speech deriding "fat-cat" politicians, praising Morris' "animal magnetism" and the like was delivered by Adam Gingrich, the House minority whip and Georgia's only Republican in Congress, managed to slide past a challenge from Herman Clark, a former state legislator, whose ads roasted Ging-checks on the Gingrich coq fV.ie" vo antnoiiv foH fairly onmfnrtnWo i uesaay sounaea an anil- with a Morris candidacy. incumbent note, spurred Dy the "He's as qualified as anyone," he shrugged.

scandal at the now-closed House rich for 22 bad Missing GOP donor's cars auctioned for child support f'V si' thorities in Southern California, Doss said. Another ex-wife, Soon Kojima, has hired a private lawyer to pursue her claim for $15,000 in back child support and a $100,000 court judgment resulting from a business venture she entered with Kojima. Meanwhile, Doss said his office traced Kojima's automobiles and began seizing them. On Thursday, he said, an auction will be held to sell a black 1985 Maserati Quatro sedan and a 1992 Acura Integra. On Friday, a 1990 Volvo, seized from Kojima's current wife, will be auctioned.

It was taken from Chiey Nomura Kojima, the current wife, when she parked it near the Kojima business in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district. By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Three luxury cars seized from a mysterious contributor to the Republican Party will be auctioned off for child support payments, the district attorney's office said Wednesday. Michael Kojima came to national attention last May, winning a head-table seat with President Bush at a fund-raising dinner after donating $400,000 and then an additional $100,000 to the Republican Party. But questions later arose about Kojima's indebtedness and secretive dealings. Kojima, 50, owes ex-wife Chong Cha Kojima more than $100,000 in support for their two children, said Deputy District Attorney Wayne Doss.

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